Music:
grateful dead, grant green, louis armstrong, steve kimock band, karl denson's tiny universe, garage-a-trois, antonio vivaldi, johan strauss jr., kermit ruffins + the barbecue swingers, susan tedeschi, fats domino, duke ellington, charlie parker, miles davis, john coltrane, lester young, dexter gordon, oscar peterson, wes montgomery, herbie hancock, james carter, doctor john, allen touissant, irma thomas, john mooney + bluesiana, sunpie barnes + the louisiana sunspots, walter "wolfman" washington + the roadmasters, los hombres calientes, rebirth brass band, hot 8 brass band, astral project, donald harrison, MG5, galactic, stanton moore trio, bela fleck and the flecktones, david grisman, the marsalis family, snooks eaglin, sam bush, coleman hawkins, big sam's funky nation, guiseppe verdi, riccard wagner, grover washington, george benson, maurice ravel, the seldom scene, medeski martin and wood, john scofield, marcus miller, david valentin, wolfgang amadeus mozart, ludwig von beethoven, johan sebastian bach, carl phillip emmanuel bach, gaylord phillipe telemonde, jimi hendrix, the greyboy all stars, james brown, jacquino rossini, james gallway, joshua bell, joshua redman, cole porter, benny goodman, george gershwin, carlene godfrey, james taylor, paul simon, crosby stills nash and young, neil young, ella fitzgerald, billie holiday, sarah maclachlan, ivan neville's dumpstafunk, brian coogan, the new orleans jazz vipers, the new orleans nightcrawlers, soul rebels, the meters, derek trucks band, 007, bonerama, johnny vidacovich, phish, trey anastasio band, lou donaldson, claude bartee, george frederick handel, franz joseph heiden...
Movies:
only see about one movie a year...when the levees broke: a requeim in four parts, fever pitch, bad lieutenant, mean streets...
Television:
red sox games on NESN, cops reruns, the simpsons, the boondocks, family guy, american dad, law and order: criminal intent (the ones with vincent d'onofrio), the soprano's, adult swim...programs about animals or nature...
Books:
jack kerouac, fyodor dostoyevsky, marcel proust, ernest hemingway, william faulkner, nickolai gogol, william s. burroughs, alexander pushkin, david halberstam, douglas brinkley (the great deluge, also edited kerouac's windblown world), hunter s. thompson, kurt vonnegut, herman melville, charles dickens, william shakespeare, ralph waldo emerson, ken kesey, neal cassady, stephen king, anne rice, allen ginsberg, thomas brothers, john kennedy toole, thomas brothers, tom sancton...currently reading: fyodor dostoyevsky-devils marcel proust-in search of lost time vol.4-sodom and gommorah wide awake in the pelican state
Heroes:
louis armstrong, carl yastrzemski, jim abbott, jack kerouac, karl denson...